"Sigh!" Liu Mang's army took down Xiangyang City without shedding a drop of blood. However, Liu Mang was not happy at all. Outside the room that used to be the governor's mansion, Liu Mang and the rest were waiting anxiously.
The person lying in the room was none other than Sun Qian, who helped Liu Mang take down Xiangyang.
"Ka Ka Ka!" Soon, the door of the room was opened and an old man walked out.
"How is it, Doctor Hua?" Liu Mang saw the old man and hurried over to ask anxiously.
Hua Tuo glanced at Liu Mang and nodded. "Your Highness King of Han, fortunately, I did not disappoint you. Lord Sun's life is not in danger for the time being!"
Hua Tuo was rushed over by Liu Mang and took the waterway from Lujiang to Xiangyang. He had been rushing all the way here and treated Sun Qian as soon as he arrived.
"Phew!" Liu Mang and the rest could not help but heave a sigh of relief.
"Thank God, Senior is fine!" De Fu was also worried about Sun Qian's safety, so she begged Liu Mang to let him stay in Xiangyang.
"But!" Hua Tuo continued.
"But what?" De Fu was very nervous.
"However, Lord Sun Qian's eyes, please forgive me for not being able to help!" Hua Tuo shook his head at the two of them.
"What!" De Fu was stunned when she heard the news. Sun Qian's life was saved, but his eyes …
This meant that Sun Qian would be a blind man in the future. A strategist without eyes?
"How could this be!" De Fu's heart was filled with bitterness. Her senior apprentice brother was originally under the tutelage of the great scholar Zheng Xuan. He should have had a bright future. However, because of Liu Bei, he was forced to leave under Zheng Xuan's tutelage.
Therefore, Zheng Xuan's evaluation of Sun Qian was that he only had the ability to govern a county.
Sun Qian gave up so much for Liu Bei. Even when Liu Bei's army was defeated countless times, Sun Qian followed Liu Bei until his death.
But what did he get in the end? It was Liu Bei's betrayal.
And now, Sun Qian couldn't even keep his eyes. His life lesson was really ruined.
"Sigh!" Liu Mang sighed. Being able to save Sun Qian's life was already the greatest consolation for Liu Mang.
Regarding Sun Qian, Liu Mang also had complicated feelings. Originally, he just wanted to leave a chess piece in Liu Bei's Army and let them fight among themselves. To be honest, Liu Mang didn't like Sun Qian at all. After all, Liu Mang had Liu Ye, Xu Shu, Jia Xu, and Zhuge Liang in his hands. A mere second-rate strategist was nothing to him. He didn't expect that Sun Qian would give him such a big reward.
The main force of Liu Bei's Army lost and was completely annihilated on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Xiangyang City was also taken by Sun Qian. Liu Bei didn't even have a chance to make a comeback.
Now, Liu Bei was just a stray dog.
Sun Qian brought so many benefits to Liu Mang. Liu Mang naturally had a good impression of Sun Qian and gave him the position of assistant minister. If Sun Qian waited for the appointment, the position would be prominent and he would be put in an important position by Liu Mang.
Would Liu Mang give up on such a loyal person?
If he could be loyal to Liu Bei, he could be loyal to Liu Mang.
Unfortunately, Sun Qian had crippled himself.
That pair of eyes had completely left his body.
The medical standards of the ancient people couldn't be compared to the medical standards of the modern era. Fortunately, Sun Qian had removed all of his eyeballs at that time. Otherwise, Sun Qian wouldn't be able to be saved just from an infection.
Even in the modern era, it was impossible to reattach the eyeballs.
It was Sun Qian's fortune to be able to keep his life.
"Don't worry, De Fu! Even if your senior brother lost his eyes, he is still the Marquis of Yangzhou! " Liu Mang was giving De Fu a promise. That was to give Sun Qian the title of Marquis. Even if Sun Qian was blind, he would still be able to enjoy a lifetime of wealth.
De Fu's eyes were red. He lowered his head and cupped his fist towards Liu Mang. "De Fu thanks the Lord on behalf of my senior brother!"
The difference between Liu Mang and Liu Bei was obvious. If it was Liu Bei, it wouldn't be difficult to abandon Sun Qian. However, Liu Bei would cry and act like he was forced to do so.
As for Liu Mang, although he didn't cry as much as Liu Bei, Liu Mang gave De Fu something solid.
A title of Marquis was too important to Sun Qian. If Liu Mang kicked him to the curb after crossing the river, De Fu wouldn't be able to do anything. This was because Sun Qian was already useless to Liu Mang.
While Liu Mang and De Fu were talking, news came that Sun Qian had woken up.
"Let's go in and see your senior brother!" Liu Mang said to De Fu.
As soon as they entered the room, a strong smell of medicine assaulted their nostrils. Liu Mang couldn't help but frown.
Under the bed, the man who swore to fight Liu Mang to the end in Runan City was nowhere to be seen.
Sun Qian now looked more like a dead man, a dead man who was gasping for breath.
"De Fu, you're here!" Sun Qian seemed to know that De Fu was here and spoke.
"En!" De Fu replied. "Senior brother, why do you have to do this? That Liu Bei is a wolf in the mountains. It's not worth it for you to do this for him!" De Fu said indignantly.
"Hehe!" Although Sun Qian was blind, he could see more clearly than anyone else. "I, Sun Qian, can't see through people. What's the use of having a pair of eyes?"
Sun Qian said gloomily. Sun Qian couldn't help but recall the scene from back then.
Outside Sun Qian's mansion, a middle-aged man with big ears and two brawny men, one black and one red, bowed their heads. Their posture was very humble, and their faces were full of sincere smiles.
Their mouths seemed to be moving as they said something. If one listened closely, one would hear, "The descendant of the Zhongshan Commandery Prince, Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, earnestly requests Mister to come out and help for the sake of the world!"
The people of the world, to support the Han dynasty. These were two reasons that couldn't be any more stupid. People would laugh at them if they said it out loud because this dream was too big.
This was because it was completely impossible to achieve.
If Liu Bei really cared about the people of the world, he should've stopped early. When Cao Cao recruited him, he should've helped Cao Cao evaluate the world. However, Liu Bei only brought war. The Battle of Xu Province, the Battle of Red Cliff, and the War of the Three Kingdoms.
These were all unnecessary wars. The people who died were always the people.
Liu Bei went to Xu Province. Xu Province was uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and it took decades for it to recover. Liu Bei went to Jingzhou. Jingzhou was originally the granary of the world, the richest place in the world, but it became a desolate prefecture.
This was Liu Bei's dream of supporting the people of the world. Supporting the Han dynasty was probably supporting Liu Bei's country.
But it was this ridiculous reason and this ridiculous dream that moved Sun Qian. He ignored the advice of his teacher, Zheng Xuan, and resolutely helped Liu Bei. He joined Liu Bei's army.
He started as a guest in Xu Province, then became the ruler of Xu Province, Hebei, and the Central Plains.
Sun Qian followed Liu Bei without abandoning him. Unfortunately, he didn't have a good ending.
After pulling himself out of his thoughts, Sun Qian couldn't help but ask De Fu, who was beside him. "De Fu, don't worry about me. I'm just a cripple. You can still continue. I'm a cripple, so I can't hold you back!" Sun Qian said kindly to De Fu.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't bring you glory and wealth. Instead, I let you suffer for so many years. I can't help you now. I'm afraid I'll lose my position as assistant minister soon!" Sun Qian said in a self-deprecating tone.
All crows were black. Liu Bei could abandon him because he was useless. How could the King of Han, Liu Mang, not do the same? He was already blind and a cripple. Who would want him?
"Senior, Han …" De Fu was a little anxious. She wanted to remind Sun Qian that the King of Han was right beside her. Wasn't he pointing at a monk and scolding a bald donkey?
However, she was stopped by Liu Mang. "Sun Gongyou, Sun Gongyou, are you really pointing at a monk and scolding a bald donkey? I, Liu Mang, have never offended you, Sun Gongyou! Why do you have to say such things about me? "
Hearing Liu Mang's voice, Sun Qian realized that Liu Mang had been in the room all this time.
Sun Qian felt a little awkward, but it disappeared immediately. Sun Qian was now completely without any desires. He had dug out his own eyes. Did he still care about his own life? At most, he would be dragged out by Liu Mang and beheaded.
"Isn't that so?" A person who wasn't even afraid of death naturally had more courage. Sun Qian also said what he didn't dare to say before. "Your Highness! You and Liu Bei are both surnamed Liu! "
"Hmph!" Liu Mang snorted coldly. "So what if you both have the surname Liu? Can you, Sun Qian, be compared to Sun Ce?" Liu Mang completely changed the concept, but Sun Qian couldn't refute it.
"Naturally, you can no longer hold the position of assistant minister!"
Even though Sun Qian already knew this, his heart still turned cold. Was the world really like this? In their eyes, there was only profit.
"Your eyes are gone, but your hands and legs are intact. Go to the Yangzhou Academy and become a professor!" Liu Mang continued to say to Sun Qian.
"Become a professor?" Sun Qian didn't fully understand Yangzhou's system.
"Big Brother. Didn't you always want to have students all over the world like Master Zheng?" De Fu knew more than Sun Qian because Liu Mang had already told him about it.
"Like Master Zheng? Academy to educate people? "Sun Qian seemed to understand something.
"But I'm a blind man!" Sun Qian mocked himself again. He was now a blind man. How could a blind man teach people? He couldn't even read books himself.
"That's simple. Find someone who can read and read for you!" Although Liu Mang was squeezing out the last bit of Sun Qian's potential, Liu Mang also wanted to give Sun Qian a chance to live with dignity.
Trash, cripple, these two words would always accompany Sun Qian.
Not to mention Sun Qian who was blind, even those who only had their hands, fingers, or feet broken would not be able to bear these two words.
Yangzhou's new army would definitely suffer a lot of casualties. Those who died were a relief. Those who didn't die were injured, and there were countless people who were disabled.
These people, although Liu Mang had promised to support them, they would still be accompanied by the words' trash 'and' cripple '.
Every soldier who had fought on the battlefield had some kind of psychological problem. These tough men on the battlefield could be beaten by these two words.
Therefore, in Shouchun, Liu Mang often had those disabled Yangzhou veterans on his desk. They either committed suicide or were killed.
These kinds of endings were often sad.
The only way to get them out of the shadow of being a cripple was to make them busy and give them something to do.
Let them feel that they were not worse than anyone else. Therefore, Liu Mang let these veterans of Sister Can be the village chief, village chief, village chief, and other grassroots officials of various villages. In this way, not only could Liu Mang rely on these loyal old soldiers to govern the people, but he could also quickly get them out of the shadow of being a cripple! Why wouldn't he do it?
And now, Liu Mang was using this method to save Sun Qian.
Liu Mang had already seen that if Liu Mang did not take action, Sun Qian would definitely die. Physical injuries could be cured, but once the heart died, no one could save him.
"Students all over the world!" The more Sun Qian thought about it, the more likely it was Liu Mang's idea. Although Sun Qian was a second-rate strategist, his foundation was still very good.
After all, he was taught by a famous teacher. He was not familiar with the Analects of Confucius. Such a person was just right to teach.
As for the problem with his eyes, as long as someone read it to him, it would be fine. Although Sun Qian had left these books for a long time, his foundation was still there.
Taking a step back, even if Sun Qian did not have the ability, he could still teach children.
"My Marquis of Cangxian, are you not willing?" Liu Mang continued to attract Sun Qian and Sun Gongyou.
"Marquis of Cangxian?" Sun Qian was completely stunned. He was stunned by the benefits that His Highness King of Han threw out one after another.
"Senior, hurry up and thank His Highness King of Han!" De Fu quickly reminded Sun Qian. This was a benefit that fell from the sky. Marquis of Cangxian, a marquis, and a county marquis. It was equivalent to a marquis of ten thousand households.
Liu Mang actually took out such a benefit, it was simply shocking.
What De Fu did not know was that the Marquis of Yangzhou and the Marquis of Great Han were two completely different things.
The Marquis of Great Han had a fief. A marquis of ten thousand households had a fief of ten thousand households. Basically, every household had to pay taxes to the marquis.
As for Yangzhou, Liu Mang had already given the land to the government. All the taxes were collected by the government. It had nothing to do with the Marquis of ten thousand households.
The only benefit was that they had an extra salary and could bring glory to their ancestors.
Sun Qian trembled when he heard this. He was very excited. "Sun Qian, Sun Gongyou, thank you, my lord!"
From this moment on, Sun Qian was truly loyal.
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